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American Civil War
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Infantry
TWENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
" And swore to the God of the ocean and land That ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.
It was found, after the organization of the several Congressional District regiments had been completed, that more companies had been offered than places had been provided for, and the 25th was constituted from the surplus. It was ordered into rendezvous at Kalamazoo, and H. G. Wells, Esq., placed in command of the camp.
Colonel Orlando H. Moore, then a captain in the U. S. army, who had been lieutenant colonel of the 13th Michigan, was appointed its colonel, under whose direction it had been drilled and disciplined, and who took the field as its commander.
Michigan
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